Another woman has come forward with claims that comedian and actor Bill Cosby allegedly drugged and raped her. Supermodel Janice Dickinson spoke with "Entertainment Tonight" and alleges that she was sexually assaulted by the now 77-year-old.
In the interview (which aired on Tuesday), Dickinson said that she met Cosby in 1982 in Lake Tahoe, Calif. where he was doing an appearance. According to the model, she met up with Cosby because he said he wanted to help her get her singing career off the ground.
Dickinson claims her agent arranged for the meet-up and Dickinson and Cosby grabbed a bite to eat before heading back to the hotel. Allegedly, Cosby offered Dickinson some red wine and a pill (because she said she was complaining of a stomach ache) and started talking.
"The next morning I woke up and I wasn't wearing my pajamas and I remembered before I passed out I had been sexually assaulted by this man," she said, adding that she remembered Cosby take off his robe right before she passed out.
The former "America's Next Top Model" judge told "Entertainment Tonight" that she wanted to write about the incident in her 2002 autobiography "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel," but Cosby and his lawyers pressured her not to mention it.
Martin Singer, a lawyer for Cosby, already responded to the claims and said that Dickinson's story is an "outrageous defamatory lie."
"Neither Mr. Cosby or any of his attorneys were ever told by Harper Collins that Ms. Dickinson had supposedly planned to write that he had sexually assaulted her, and neither Mr. Cosby or any of his representatives ever communication [sic] with the publisher about any alleged rape or sexual assault about the book," Singer said.
Cosby has been accused of raping or sexually assaulting women in the past but the allegations resurfaced last month when comedian Hannibal Buress called him a "rapist" during a performance in Philadelphia.
